Blenderart Magazine is preparing for their 8th issue and they are looking for content. Sandra Gilbert sent in the following call for content:
It’s time again to start thinking about articles, tutorials and images for Issue # 8 of Blenderart Magazine.
In this issue we are focusing on ‘Cars’.
At least the technology preview. In development for awhile and something many have patiently waited with anticipation. Well you can download it now!
I don’t know about you, but using the stride bone can a burdensome process for most. Luckily, the upcoming version of Blender (likely to be released in late December or early January) has a new solution that is far easier to set up and may be your new favorite animation tool.
Who doesn’t like a good cartoon? – especially the classics by Chuck Jones. Well, Virgilio Carlo de Menezes (aka VirgilioVasconcelos) has made the great classic, “One Froggy Evening”, the focus of his graduation project. That’s right, “One Froggy Evening” in Blender 3D!
The next Michigan Blender User Group is scheduled for Dec. 16th 2006 at 1:00PM. More details on BlenderArtists.
Lucky141, a Blender Community member, has recently published a tutorial set concerning the ever popular, and often misunderstood spin modeling method. This tutorial is actually a 2in1 tutorial since it gives two methods of creating the same thing!
Jeffrey McGrew has written a nice short tutorial on using the sculpt mode that is in Blender CVS.
This is what five minutes of playing around with the Blender Monkey resulted in. I thought I’d take a moment and write up a quick tutorial to how to get the new Sculpt mode to work so y’all can play with too (it’s a lot of fun!).
This month’s edition of the British Linux User & Developer Magazine features a six-page interview with Ton Roosendaal.
Trevor has won the first prize ($750!) in the OpenOffice.org ‘Clipart and Draw’ contest with a clipart library of over 130 images, all made in Blender.
After yesterday’s post about Piovra, several great comments were posted discussing other alternatives to distributed rendering. There are of course other options, probably more than enough to make an educated decision on what’s best for you or your company. So let’s take a look five others submitted by BN readers that might peak your interest!
